By STEVEN ERTELT
ROCHESTER, Minn. (LifeNews) — A Catholic bishop in Minnesota is slamming Democrats there for legalizing abortions up to birth.
As reported previously, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill into law that legalizes abortions up to birth.
Walz signed into law the Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act to enshrine in state statute a “fundamental right” to abortion without limits or safeguards. The bill had passed the state House and Senate by narrow margins after Democrat leaders quickly pushed it through the legislature in the opening weeks of the session.
Because the new law removes every single abortion limit until birth, the law would allow abortion on demand even late in pregnancy when unborn babies are viable and can feel excruciating pain. The bill also would also deny parents the right to know if their minor daughter is seeking an abortion.
Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron called a newly passed Minnesota abortion law “the worst kind of barbarism.”
“I want to share with you my anger, my frustration over this terrible law that was just signed by the governor in Minnesota — the most really extreme abortion law that’s on the books in the wake of the Roe v. Wade reversal,” Barron said about Walz signing the bill.
“But the worst thing is it basically permits abortion all the way through pregnancy up to the very end. And indeed, indeed if a child somehow survives a botched abortion, the law now prohibits an attempt to save that child’s life.”
He continued: “I don’t know why this is really debated anymore in our country, but this strikes me as just the worst kind of barbarism. And in the name of, I don’t know, subjectivity, and freedom, and choice and all this, we’re accepting this kind of brutality.”
He also decried provisions allowing secret abortions on teenagers without parental knowledge or consent.
“Basically, it eliminates any kind of parental notifications so a 12-year-old child can get an abortion without even telling her parents about it,” Barron said.
Polls show that most Minnesotans and most Americans disagree with the no-limits policy enshrined by the PRO Act. A 2022 KSTP/SurveyUSA poll found that only 30 percent of Minnesotans think abortion should always be legal.
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